Word: sst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nation's environmentalist lobby, refreshed by its success, had turned to other concerns. So had the Boeing Company. After the Senate abruptly voted down further funds for development of the supersonic transport in March, Boeing laid off more than 5,000 workers, dispersed its crack team of SST designers and engineers, and closed down the Seattle factory where for four years it had been creating a supersonic prototype...
...last week, in a classic display of legislative legerdemain, the Administration and the House Republican leadership succeeded in resurrecting the SST, at least temporarily, and reopening the debate on whether the U.S. needs or wants the aircraft on which it has already spent $864 million in Government funds. By a vote of 201 to 197, the House appropriated another $85 million to allow continuation of the project...
...irony especially bitter to anti-SST forces was the source of the $85 million: it was money originally intended to compensate Boeing and General Electric, the two main contractors, for the cancellation. But two weeks ago, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford and G.O.P. Whip Les Arends went to the White House to report that a vote on the canceling appropriation might be deftly turned to revive the plane. "It would be a great thing to get this done," President Nixon told them. The President set his congressional liaison office to work on the project, but the real persuasion was accomplished...
...studied the lives of all the top Russians, and so he thinks we ought to keep our weapons modern and have plenty of them. That idea keeps setting him apart from the others. To him it is simple. You seek peace, but stay strong. We need the SST, but we don't need to disrupt nature. "We can have quality of life and economic growth." The parlor liberals have forgotten that jobs are important, he insists. He studies a lot, squirreling away facts. "Some of these guys go up the hill and down the hill," he says. "They come...
Corner Grocer. But opposition to the bail-out plan is already forming in Congress, where approval is necessary before the money actually starts flowing. "I will do my best as a Senator to oppose this proposal," said William Proxmire, who figured heavily in the defeat of the SST. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman, who helped defeat the Administration's initial loan proposal to save Penn Central from bankruptcy last year, also has his knife out. Others are opposed to the rescue plan unless, as Indiana's Vance Hartke says, "the corner grocer gets...